Find all integers for which is divisible by .
Solution
From it follows that is a divisor of . Obviously, one solution is .
Let . Then . From it follows that or . The case is not possible (). From it follows that i.e. . The last inequality is satisfied for . Checking each value, we conclude that and satisfy the initial condition.
Finally .
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